A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

Benjamin Franklin listed ‘death’ and ‘taxes’ as the two things humans cannot avoid. It means that taxes, like death, are ...

My grandmother and I had a wonderful relationship. We talked regularly and saw each other often. We discussed life, the future and just about everything. During the last few years of her life, however ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Ski great Lindsey Vonn said she suffered a complex leg fracture in Sunday's downhill race at the Milano Cortina Olympics that will require multiple surgical operations. The ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Nick Reiner is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

One administration official is leading a government-funded cultural institution in Washington as he conducts diplomatic talks with foreign countries. Another is in charge of two agencies, each with ...